From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B7D01B517; Wed, 10 Oct 2018 16:14:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx07.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 661E880F6C; Wed, 10 Oct 2018 14:14:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ktraynor.remote.csb (unknown [10.36.118.13]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8384B1054FBA; Wed, 10 Oct 2018 14:14:30 +0000 (UTC) From: Kevin Traynor To: dev@dpdk.org, techboard@dpdk.org, john.mcnamara@intel.com Cc: bluca@debian.org, mvarlese@suse.de, christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com, Kevin Traynor Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 15:14:16 +0100 Message-Id: <20181010141416.21999-1-ktraynor@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20181010094053.21616-1-ktraynor@redhat.com> References: <20181010094053.21616-1-ktraynor@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.84 on 10.5.11.22 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.27]); Wed, 10 Oct 2018 14:14:32 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: note min required kernel version increase for 19.02 X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 14:14:33 -0000 Updating docs to reflect decision made at the techboard that the min kernel version should be bumped from 3.2 to the latest longterm stable release (3.16), but that compatiblity for commonly used distribution kernels should be kept also. Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon --- v2: break long lines I namechecked RHEL/CentOS 7 because they have a 3.10 based kernel and were discussed. I can add others if requested, but not needed if their base version is >= 3.16. Not discussed at techboard, but I added that the change will happen for 19.02, so that any impacted users have some time and an LTS before the change. Can change that if required. doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst index e2230f3..11d65b1 100644 --- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst +++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst @@ -104,4 +104,11 @@ System Software uname -r +.. note:: + + Kernel version 3.2 is no longer a kernel.org longterm stable kernel. + For DPDK 19.02 the minimum required kernel will be updated to + the current kernel.org oldest longterm stable supported kernel 3.16, + or recent versions of common distributions, notably RHEL/CentOS 7. + * glibc >= 2.7 (for features related to cpuset) -- 2.9.5